Stylify Minimal Responsive Blogger Template

This is a fully responsive and highly optimized template for every kind of Blogger user. It is centered around the concept of Minimalism hence all the unnecessary stuff like Blogger's Default CSS as well as JavaScript have been shunned. It has lightening fast load times and completely complies with Search Engines heading and title standards. This template requires that you have a little bit of knowledge about HTML/CSS so as to do some customization , rest assured that I will be there to help you out in the comments if you face any unsolvable problem.

- Firstly After Installing the Template Go to Layout and Edit the Blog Posts Widget. Now untick these options and save.

- In the Download package copy all the content of the Widgets.txt file.
Now create a New HTML/JavaScript widget and place it under the Header widget (Don't forget to press the Save Arrangements button) See image below

In this widget , paste the contents of Widgets.txt file and Save. Now the Search Box , Menu and Social Media Buttons are installed. You will have to manually change the URLs in the Menu as well the Social Media Buttons. The most important URL to change is the action URL of Search box . Make it something like http://www.yourblogURL.blogspot.com/search

- To configure the CSS3 Labels , go to Layout and Edit the Label widget , there Tick Cloud as Display Option and Uncheck the Show number of posts per label

- Now go to the Template > Edit HTML option , Click Proceed and then Tick Expand Widget Templates
Here Search for "Short" . Now remove this whole line and write a small bio about yourself that will be visible under each post. Replace the URL of the Image as well if you like

- Now search for "Stay Connected With Us" , now here change all your Social media URLs accordingly

- Now Search for "Your Tag Line" and replace it with your blog's mission or description

- Now Search for "thumbnail_mode" , this will display all the settings related to the Auto Read More Hack

Happy Blogging !

One piece of warning , Other than the Popular Post and Label Widget all the widgets like Blog Archive ,etc don't work . This is because the Deafult JS and CSS files of Blogger have been removed. On the Brighter side Your blog will open like a express train (given that you don't overcrowd it with widgets)

This was the settings that was present in the Old Blogger Dashboard . It allowed you to choose whether to show or not show the commenters profile image. Currently this settings is not available in the New Interface. So in the old interface if you selected to show default images then that settings is continuing in the current interface and we have no control as of now.

The other reason why I switched to default images is because when you switch on the profile images , 512X512 image is served . With just a around 10-15 comments you will be wasting around 300KB+ of bandwidth. This is will badly effect in long run

As I told Akshat above , this setting is not currently available in the New Interface. It is continuing from the old interface , so which ever was your settings in the old one , it is continuing in the new interface. You have no control over it as of now

Great template. Just two questions:A- How to change the post background color say to #eeeeeeB- How to remove the "paper appearance" of the post body to make it look like this one right here. Because while it looks sleek on the main page, when visiting a label with a lot of posts it enlarges to the point where it sneaks behind the sidebar and distorts the smooth look of the template.Thank you

Wow.....!!!!! Awesome Template.....I like the style... First time I saw this kind of template for blogger......But I like also this Gradient Blogger Template jobsexamresult.in . I hope you like it too.. :-)

I like the template and have been using it on my new blog. But I've ran into a snag. At the end of a post it will say "By Jesse Focht" and underneath it says "a short description about yourself." I can't figure out how to change the short description part to actually having a short description of myself. If I can't change that text how do I remove it?